And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, Jesus explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself. (Luke 24:27)
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
Prophecy: "And I will put enmity between you and
the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel." (Genesis 3:15)
Fulfillment:
"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His
Son, born of a woman, born under the law. (Galatians 4:4)
Prophecy: "I will bless those who bless you, and
I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth
shall be blessed." (Genesis 12:3)
Fulfillment: The
book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham,
(Matthew 1:1)
Prophecy: Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall
bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant
with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him."
(Genesis 17:19)
Fulfillment: Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac
begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers, (Matthew 1:2)
Prophecy: "I shall see Him, but not now; I shall
behold Him, but He is not near. When a King shall arise from the house of
Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the house of Israel; He shall slay
the princes of Moab, and rule over all the children of men." (Numbers
24:17)
Fulfillment: the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac,
the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, (Luke 3:34)
Prophecy: The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall
be the obedience of the people. (Genesis 49:10.)
Fulfillment:
the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son
of Perez, the son of Judah, (Luke 3:33)
Prophecy: Of the increase of His government and peace
There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order
it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even
forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. (Isaiah
9:7)
Fulfillment: "He will be great, and will be called
the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His
father David." (Luke 1:32)
Prophecy: Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You love
righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed
You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions. (Psalms
45:6-7)
Fulfillment: "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing
all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him." (Acts
10:38)
Prophecy: Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will
endure; yes, they will all grow old like a garment; like a cloak You will
change them, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years
will have no end. (Psalms 102:25-27)
Fulfillment: "You,
LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens
are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; and they will
all grow old like a garment; like a cloak You will fold them up, and they
will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail."
(Hebrews 1:10-12)
Prophecy: "Know therefore and understand, that from
the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah
the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall
be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times." (Daniel
9:25)
Fulfillment: And it came to pass in those days that
a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all
went to be registered, everyone to his own city. (Luke 2:1-3)
Prophecy: "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you
a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call
His name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)
Fulfillment: Now
the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed
to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy
Spirit. (Matthew 1:18)
Prophecy: "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you
are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth
to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old,
from everlasting." (Micah 5:2)
Fulfillment: Now after
Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold,
wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. (Matthew 2:1)
Prophecy: Thus says the LORD: "A voice was heard
in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more."
(Jeremiah 31:15)
Fulfillment: Then Herod, when he saw
that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent
forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in
all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which
he had determined from the wise men. (Matthew 2:16)
Prophecy: "When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called My son." (Hosea 11:1)
Fulfillment:
When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and
departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out
of Egypt I called My Son." (Matthew 2:14-15)
Prophecy: The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
"Prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our
God. (Isaiah 40:3)
Fulfillment: "He will also go before
Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make
ready a people prepared for the Lord." (Luke 1:17)
Prophecy: "Behold, I send My messenger, and he will
prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come
to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold,
He is coming," says the LORD of hosts. (Malachi
3:1)
Fulfillment: "This is he of whom it is written: 'Behold,
I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'
For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet
than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater
than he." (Luke 7:27-28)
Prophecy: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. (Malachi
4:5)
Fulfillment: "For all the prophets and the law prophesied
until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to
come." (Matthew 11:13-14)
Prophecy: "I will declare the decree: The LORD has
said to Me, 'You are My Son, today I have begotten You." (Psalms
2:7)
Fulfillment: While he was still speaking, behold,
a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud,
saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"
(Matthew 17:5)
Prophecy: Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon
her who is distressed, as when at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the
way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles. The people
who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land
of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined. (Isaiah
9:1-2)
Fulfillment: And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. (Matthew
4:23)
Prophecy: I will open my mouth in a parable; I will
utter dark sayings of old. (Psalms 78:2)
Fulfillment:
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without
a parable He did not speak to them. (Matthew 13:34)
Prophecy: "The LORD your God will raise up for you
a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear."
(Deuteronomy 18:15)
Fulfillment: "and that He may send
Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until
the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth
of all His holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said to the
fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from
your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.
'And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be
utterly destroyed from among the people.'" (Acts 3:20-23)
Prophecy: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has
sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening of the prison to those who are bound;" (Isaiah
61:1)
Fulfillment: "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent
Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;" (Luke
4:18)
Prophecy: He is despised and rejected by men, a Man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from
Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. (Isaiah
53:3)
Fulfillment: He came to His own, and His own did
not receive Him. (John 1:11)
Prophecy: The LORD has sworn and will not relent,
"You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." (Psalms
110:4)
Fulfillment: So also Christ did not glorify Himself
to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, today
I have begotten You." As He also says in another place: "You are a priest
forever according to the order of Melchizedek." (Hebrews 5:5-6)
Prophecy: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and
having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a
donkey." (Zechariah 9:9)
Fulfillment: They brought
the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them.
And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down
branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes
who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the
Son of David! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna
in the highest!" And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,
saying, "Who is this?" So the multitudes said, "This is Jesus, the Prophet
from Nazareth of Galilee." (Matthew 21:7-11)
Prophecy: Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence
the enemy and the avenger. (Psalms 8:2)
Fulfillment:
But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things
that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna
to the Son of David!" they were indignant. (Matthew 21:15)
Prophecy: Who has believed our report? And to whom
has the arm of the LORD been revealed? (Isaiah
53:1)
Fulfillment: But although He had done so many signs
before them, they did not believe in Him. (John 12:37)
Prophecy: Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. (Psalms
41:9)
Fulfillment: And while He was still speaking, behold,
a multitude; and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before
them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus said to him, "Judas, are
you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" (Luke 22:47-48)
Prophecy: Then I said to them, "If it is agreeable
to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain." So they weighed out for my
wages thirty pieces of silver. (Zechariah 11:12)
Fulfillment:
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief
priests and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?"
And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. (Matthew 26:14-15)
Prophecy: Fierce witnesses rise up; they ask me things that I do not know. (Psalms 35:11)
Fulfillment: Then some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying, "We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.'" (Mark 14:57-58)
Prophecy: He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)
Fulfillment: Then Pilate asked Him again, saying, "Do You answer nothing? See how many things they testify against You!" But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marveled. Mark 15:4-5)
Prophecy: I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. (Isaiah 50:6)
Fulfillment: Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands. (Matthew 26:67)
Prophecy: Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies; Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause. (Psalms 35:19)
Fulfillment: "If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father." (John 15:24)
Prophecy: But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)
Fulfillment: For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)
Prophecy: "If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God." (Deuteronomy 21:22-23)
Fulfillment: Jesus Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
Prophecy: Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12)
Fulfillment: With Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with the transgressors." (Mark 15:27-28)
Prophecy: For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet. (Psalms 22:16)
Fulfillment: "Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have." (Luke 24:39)
Prophecy: All those who see Me ridicule Me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, "He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!" (Psalms 22:7-8)
Fulfillment: Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, "He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. "He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'" (Matthew 27:41-43)
Prophecy: Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. (Psalms 69:9)
Fulfillment: For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me." (Romans 15:3)
Prophecy: In return for my love they are my accusers, but I give myself to prayer. (Psalms 109:4)
Fulfillment: Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots. (Luke 23:34)
Prophecy: They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. (Psalms 22:18)
Fulfillment: Then they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: "They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots." (Matthew 27:35)
Prophecy: My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning? (Psalms 22:1)
Fulfillment: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46)
Prophecy: He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken. (Psalms 34:20)
Fulfillment: But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. (John 19:33)
Prophecy: "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn." (Zechariah 12:10)
Fulfillment: But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19:34)
Prophecy: And they made His grave with the wicked; but with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. (Isaiah 53:9)
Fulfillment: Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him. When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed. (Matthew 27:57-60)
Prophecy: For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. (Psalms 16:10)
Fulfillment: "Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. But God raised Him from the dead." (Acts 13:29-30)
Prophecy: Surely even now my witness is in heaven, and my evidence is on high. My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God. Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor! (Job 16:19-21)
Fulfillment: My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:1-2)
Prophecy: You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God might dwell there. (Psalms 68:18)
Fulfillment: So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19)
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